Corona Devotionals

Happy Birthday, America. So many things make me proud to live in the Nation that I do, but none more than the reason (Reason!) that our Nation was founded, established and forged: One Nation Under God . Our founders came here from across the pond with very little, and they arrived with even less...and even fewer.   But they had a desire to live free and to worship God freely , and they were determined to not just survive...but to thrive.  The freedoms that we enjoy today  are a direct result of the freedoms that they sought to establish yesterday.   We celebrate July 4th every year in the U.S.A., but much ado has been made about this  year because 2026 marks the 250th birthday of the United States of America officially being unified by the document that holds us together as a Nation, and also sets us apart from any other nation: the Declaration of Independence. Intellect, debates, review, revisions, time, and prayer  went into our Declaration...

I was happily barrelling down a two-lane country road on my way to an appointment when I came up upon a truck towing a trailer of hay bales.  It was  moving slowly.   I had been making good time, but I had to press the brakes for this truck now in front of me. As I began to slow, I looked around.  I was approaching a big farmhouse with fields of crop surrounding it.  It looked so peaceful in the early light of the day.   My slower pace gave me time to take things in, and I let my gaze float to the top of the silo that stood next to their barn.  There was a metal ring that wrapped around the top of the silo, almost like a railing around it, and on top of that silo...on top of that railing...sat a big beautiful bald eagle, peering out at the world, and me. And I was able to glimpse him because a truck full of hay pulled out in front of me and caused me to slow down long enough to take in my surroundings.  I love bald eagles.  I love ...

Let's make a beautiful noise (vocal or instrumental) unto the Lord today.   Why ?   B ecause (at the most base level)...He has delivered us from sin and the power of sin over us.    My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you— I whom you have delivered.  ~Psalm 71:23 The beautiful, melodic, special outpouring of sound involved in m aking music (with our voice or with instruments) is special.  It is a gift from God, and while we all have different gifts,  I have to give a shout out today to those who can shout it out in harmony and in key and in pitch.  And, let's say "bravo" to those using a bow across the strings or a puffing into a trumpet, tuba, or flute.   Music brings about something special in our spirit and music has a special place in God's holy heart too.   It must.   Because God includes  music and the sounds of instruments and singing voices regularly, repeatedly, and pur...

And I saw another angel flying through the sky, carrying the eternal Good News to proclaim to the people who belong to this world—to every nation, tribe, language, and people.  ( 7)  “Fear God,” he shouted. “Give glory to him. For the time has come when he will sit as judge. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and all the springs of water.”   ~Revelation 14:6-7  Are we flying through (life)... carrying the eternal Good News to proclaim to the people who belong to this world ? If they " belong to this world ", then they don't (yet) belong to God...and that's why we are called to  carry the eternal Good News to them. They must hear it from someone, Y'all!   Why wouldn't/shouldn't/couldn't it be US today?   I love the (mind's eye) image that the verses concerning this  angel create for us: Can't we just see  the angel  flying through the sky, carrying the eternal Good News to proclaim to the people who belong to...